Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
Society for U.S. Intellectual History @susih.bsky.social The official Society for U.S. Intellectual History Account at Bluesky! #USIH 
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Maryland
vanhollen.senate.gov
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
David M. P. Freund @mpeterf.bsky.social Historian, author of COLORED PROPERTY, and grateful for Richard Scarry books. Money is credit and a creature of law. (https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781788972246/9781788972246.xml)
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social Real Estate Developer & Designer// UT Austin Alum// Accidental Activist// Snarky at times// Politics by any Meme necessary// NEVER TRUMP
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of Claiming Land, Claiming Water & To Feast on Us as Their Prey. More: rachelbherrmann.com
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Jordan E. Taylor @publiusorperish.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution, news, politics, etc. Author of Misinformation Nation.
Manager of Digital Content for Colonial Williamsburg. Views here are my own.
Used to be more into social media. Now trying to enjoy the quiet.
jordanetaylor.com
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com
My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
Julian Lim @julimwest.bsky.social Historian of immigration, borders, race, and law.
Jeffrey McClurken @jmcclurken.bsky.social Chief of Staff, VP of Strategy & Prof of History/AMST @UMW. Digital History Reviews Ed for JAH (Former Dept Chair & Spec Asst to the Provost). 
Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social Harvard professor, historian of science, technology, and medicine, plus food and environment 🜃
(https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/joyce-chaplin)
New book: THE FRANKLIN STOVE (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613808/thefranklinstove/)
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social Historian at UNH. Teaches early America, capitalism, & animals. 1st Book (2013): "The Many Panics of 1837." 2nd Book (2025): "Canal Dreamers" https://uncpress.org/book/9781469690551/canal-dreamers/
Tessa Murphy @murphyte.bsky.social Canadian historian of the colonial Caribbean. Associate Prof. of Early American History, Syracuse U. Author of “The Creole Archipelago.” She/her.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social Historian, gardener, cook (not necessarily in that order)
Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution | Bostonian |🎙️ Ben Franklin’s World | 🐾 Mother of schnauzers | I help adults see how early America shapes today.
https://linktr.ee/lizcovart
Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns.bsky.social Author of Author of Maladies of Empire & Sick from Freedom; Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation; Gilder Lehrman NEH Prof at Gettysburg College; https://www.jimdownsofficial.com
Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social Historian of politics, business, media in early America. Author of Revolutionary Networks. He/him. See https://josephadelman.com for more.
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Rob Parkinson @rparkinson.bsky.social Prof. of History, Binghamton University. Author, Heart of American Darkness, Tyrants & Rogues. Go Vols, Go Steelers.
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant @bettyrbl.bsky.social Historian and Native American and Indigenous Studies scholar.
Joshua D. Rothman @jrothman.bsky.social Historian of American slavery, Crimson Tide Intellectual.
Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social Historian of colonial America, the Caribbean, and slavery. Professor at UCSC. Lover of cooking, sporting, mountains, and indie bands. Mischievous uncle.
Karen Racine @klracine.bsky.social Historian. Age of Revolution. Spanish America and Great Britain. Atlantic World. Co-editor of Atlantic Crossings book series (University of Alabama Press). Canadian.
Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
Debbie Gershenowitz @dgershenowitz.bsky.social Editorial Director at Bloomsbury (Academic) Publishing, NY https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z47q32icdhkbqpi6m6vmiacx
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Mark L. Thompson @mark-l-thompson.bsky.social Early American historian in Groningen
Ellisonian thinker-tinker
FoundersChat: https://founderschat.app.rug.nl
H-GEAR: https://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/american-revolution/
Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social "The Lightning Rod of Weirdness." Public historian, bicyclist, noted bon vivant. Taking a break from politics so if I unfollow you that's why.
Diana Paton @dianapaton.bsky.social Caribbean and global history. University of Edinburgh. New here. Need a photo.
Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social Distinguished Prof of Law & History @UCLALaw, cat lady, mom, lover of democracy. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Www.arielajgross.com
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. Author (with Peter S. Onuf) of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (Liveright, 2026).
Emily Conroy-Krutz @econroykrutz.bsky.social Historian of 19th century religion and US foreign relations. Author of Christian Imperialism (2015) and Missionary Diplomacy (2024)
Carolyn Eastman @carolyneastman.bsky.social
Historian, professor, book review editor, and reader, currently writing a book about Black and white New Yorkers' experiences with yellow fever during the 1790s. 
Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social Online journal for the history of #revolutions, #revolutionaries, & the idea of “revolution” itself. Est. by @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social & @cindyermus.bsky.social.
ageofrevolutions.com
McNeil Center for Early American Studies @mcneilcenter.bsky.social Facilitating scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America/Atlantic world before 1850
https://www.mceas.org/
Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social Native Cook County Democrat, Cubs fan, and long-time historian of the American Revolution and Constitution
Hannah farber @farberhannah.bsky.social Early americanist @ Columbia. Late-late-late early modernist. Swashbuckling insurance history Underwriters of the United States, tinyurl.com/uotus. Now: lawsuits, Revolution -> Tocqueville.
Ronald Angelo Johnson @ronajohnson.bsky.social Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Professor of History at Baylor University | Author of *Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution* (Cornell University Press)
Kathleen DuVal @kathleenduval.bsky.social Historian, UNC professor
Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social Associate Prof, Director of Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern. The Medical Imagination (Penn Press, 2018) + Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship (Penn Press, 2026). Coeditor: Keywords for Health Humanities (NYU, 2023).
Lucia McMahon @luciamcmahon.bsky.social Lady historian and author of The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith;
Yoga, coffee, and hiking enthusiast
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5808/
Nora Slonimsky @noraslonimsky.bsky.social History, tea, & Star Wars enthusiast. Aspiring hat aficionado. Writes about copyrights. www.hamiltonsolo.com
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher
Emma Hart @emmahart.bsky.social Historian, mum, and trivia aficionado 
Alison Games @gamesaf.bsky.social No Kings! Free DC. Historian.
Sara Damiano @sdamiano.bsky.social Historian of early America. Author of To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities (JHU, 2021).
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Revolution 250 @revolution250.bsky.social A non-profit organization created by historians, historical organizations, and others to commemorate the coming of the American Revolution in Boston, in Massachusetts, and in New England. Creating events and resources since 2015.
Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social Forthcoming Book: American Monarchists: The Founders Who Betrayed the Revolution (Basic Books, 2027).
Historian of the American Revolution and Creation of the US Constitution. Author of Taming Democracy.
Democracy Dies in Doomerism. Don't be a Doomer.
Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social Historian. Author: Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. Editor: commonplace.online. joshuargreenberg.com
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff. Big Ron enthusiast.
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social Historian & nerd. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own
https://linktr.ee/benjaminepark
Lindsay M. Chervinsky @lmchervinsky.bsky.social Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library @mount_vernon. 🖊️ MAKING THE PRESIDENCY & THE CABINET. 🐶 mom. Views my own.
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social Historian, writer, and teacher of early American gender, culture, & politics; Assoc. Prof; Public Historian; Author of FIRST FAMILY (Hanover Square) & FOUNDING FRIENDSHIPS(OUP)
cassandragoodhistorian.com | same handle on insta & Mastodon
Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social Historian, professor, tired.
Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social Historian of Early America, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY. Leading AHA wit. Latest AmRev book: "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" 🔥 Dad, Mets fan, fantasy reader
Kate Masur @katemasur.bsky.social Historian and whatnot. Recently published FREEDOM WAS IN SIGHT! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. REGION, with illustrations by the remarkable Liz Clarke. See also katemasur.com. 
Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social Historian (she/her)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Johann Neem @johannneem.bsky.social Scholar of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, education. Author of "What's the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform" and "Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America." Website: https://johannneem.com
J. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social History, analysis & unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England. 
Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social Author of THE LOST TRADITION OF ECONOMIC EQUALITY IN AMERICA, 1600-1870, and many works on Native peoples in New England 1600-1900. Emeritus prof of history, Truman State University, now happy to be in Worcester Mass., aka Nipmuc homelands. He/him/FDJT
Jen Manion @manionjen.bsky.social Historian of Sexuality & Gender @ Amherst College. #LGBTQ #FirstGen Author of Female Husbands (2020) and Liberty’s Prisoners (2015). WELLFLEET
Michael Hattem @michaelhattem.bsky.social Historian and Author of "The Memory of '76" (YUP, 2024), “The Declaration of Independence: A Concise History” (OUP, 2026), and “Past & Prologue” (YUP, 2020) | Music: National Steel | @Arsenal
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